Chocolate Raspberry Linzer Cookies

Ingredients

290 gr all purpose flour
5 gr baking powder
1 gr cinnamon
1 gr salt
200 gr sugar
170 gr butter
2 eggs
1 gr almond extract
26 gr raspberry jam
1/2 dough
1/8 thickness
2 1/2 round cookie cutter

Instructions

dough. Cut 3 cm round centers from half of unbaked cookies. Place on ungreased cookie sheets. Reroll dough trimmings, if necessary. Bake 8-10 minutes just until set. Let stand on cookie sheets 2 minutes. Remove from cookie sheets; cool completely. Over hot (not boiling) water, melt Nestle Toll House semi-sweet chocolate morsels, stirring until smooth. Spread 1 measuring teaspoonful melted chocolate on flat side of each whole cookie. Top with half measuring teaspoon raspberry jam. Sprinkle confectioners' sugar on cookies with center holes; place flat side down on top of chocolate-jam cookies to form cookie sandwiches. Makes about 3 dozen sandwich cookies.